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Marjolaine Ryley

Senior Lecturer in Photography

I am an artist and Senior Lecturer in Photography. I have exhibited my work both nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at Street Level Photoworks Gallery, Glasgow, Impressions Gallery, Bradford and The Palacio des Artes, Porto.

My publications include ‘Villa Mona - A Proper Kind of House’ Trace Editions, 2006, ‘Field Study 7 Residence Astral’ PARC, 2009 and 'Growing Up in the New Age', Daylight NYC, 2013. In 2019 my work will be shown at NGCA, Sunderland in a new exhbition 'This is What I see' using photography, creative text and archival materials to explore a range of themes linking autobiograhical experience to wider political issues. I am currently undertaking a PhD funded by Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership.

Teaching and supervision

Research interests for potential research students

Photography and autobiography/auto-ethnography

Photography and and archival practice

Photography and ecolology

Research

My work explores ideas of memory, history, familial relationships and archival narratives. My practice uses photography, the moving image, creative writing and archival materials to explore a range of themes and issues that look at linking personal experiences to broader social and political narratives. My work moves between the personal album and the social document:

Current work:'This is What I See' is a solo exhibition that will be held at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in November 2019. Bringring together twenty years of my practice this show will include a number of bodies of work exploring themes of family, history, memory, the counterculture, the garden, invisible illness and the use of autobiography as an artistic methodology. A new publication will accompany this exhibition.

Previous projects:A Gardener’s Daughter explores the relationship between art, gardening and well-being through a practice-based research methodology. Through this project I am exploring themes such as ‘Women and Gardens’, ‘Radical Gardening’ and ‘Politics of Gardening’. This work will shown as part of the exhbition 'This is what I See' in Nov 2019. I am also exploring these themes through Doctoral Research as a Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership funded student based in Fine Art at Newcastle University. www.agardenersdaughterblog.wordpress.com

The Last Picture Show: In 2006 I received a Research Development Fellowship to undertake 'The Last Picture Show', a project looking at the changing nature of family photography in the digital age. This fellowship was a collaboartaion with Professor Val Williams at ‘The Photography and the Archive Research Centre' (PARC) and led to outputs including exhibitions, publications and a website: www.thelastpictureshow.org.